--I know my Lord's will, and I have led a good life; I
pay for all that I have, I give tithes, and give alms, and have
left my own land for that to which I now go.
Christian.--But you came not in at the gate that is at the head
of this way, you came in through a small lane; so that I fear,
though you may think well of all you have done, that when the
time shall come, you will have this laid to your charge, that you
are a thief and so you will not get in.
Ignorance.--Well, since I know you not; you keep to your own
creed, and I will keep to mine, and I hope all will be well. And
as for the gate that you talk of, all the world knows that it is
far from our land, and I do not think that there is a man in all
our parts who does so much as know the way to it, and I see not
what need there is that he should, since we have, as you see, a
fine green lane at the next turn that comes down from our part of
the world.
Christian said in a low tone of voice to Hopeful: There is more
hope of a fool than of him.
Hopeful.--Let us pass on if you will, and talk to him by and by,
when, may be, he can bear it.
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